Immanuel Hermann Fichte famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  • I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  • We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

  • Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes

  • You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.

  • The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

  • Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!

  • I know that I do deserve good things.

  • No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love—they have to earn it.

  • Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.